Thank you fordowning us here tonight. Well hear from both beth macy and john bassett who have both graciously agreed to stay for questions and sign books after the talk. Note cards have been placed in every seat, at lease the first 200 before we filled in the rest of the room. Ushers will collect the questions in baskets at the break just before the q a starts. At this point, id like to welcome john bassett iii to st. Johns. [applause] looking forward to hearing from you tonight, sir. Id also particularly like to welcome any folks who are here from henry county, bassett, and galax, i think you all share the spotlight in this as well. I could tell you about all of the amazing awards that beth macy has won for her writing, hello, anymoran fellow. But the real mark of her gift as a journalist shines in a simple question how many of you remember a specific beth macy story . By a show of hands, how many of you remember young selena, who made it to harvard with the whole community of the Lib
Happen. It could happen. One path this path this episode may take, the New York Stock Exchange has been trying to buy i. E. Ask. I have already they all could have been rage. They turned it down because they cannot allow themselves to be sold to the New York Stock Exchange unless the New York Stock Exchange gets rid of all the bad stuff that is going on. But if the New York Stock Exchange came 1070 not only will we buy you but get rid of all the highfrequency traders, no longer giving them preferential access, it is easy to imagine exchanges folding and all of the business is going on the New York Stock Exchange. But without even being in the middle of it, without investment orders passing through handle. That is the natural solution. You touched on this little bit. I guess up until now how successful have you been like i dont know if their are other exchanges. Well, if you talk to investors who orders are being directed on the exchange, all of a sudden defining the problem that manife
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Though there was resistance we were able to get it done. Back to dorothy. The help of their agent, they cured a loan and bought the property but when the seller realized she sold the house to a black family, she wouldnt give them the keys. So for six months6 months, the couple continue to pay rent on their plat while paying mortgage on a house they couldnt move into. After months of waiting, the adams talked to a lawyer and the couples friends used a tire iron to jimmy the side door to get in the home. So the excuse me. The family broke the barrier to get into their own home and the first neighbor welcomed them into the neighborhood and he served in the neighborhood and she held a dinner every 2 months for more than 4 decades. The adams lived on their Plymouth Avenue home. Im sorry i never had the opportunity to meet her in person. But within a week of the couple moving senior residence in san mateo. Ms. Adams died. Today i would like to remember ms. Adams. The second person who passed